Support for a local Art Event!

From: "Chris Tymoshuk"
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:40 AM
Subject: springdale school shows

The last Springdale school weekend may turn out to be the beginning of a regular monthly art sale.
If you are interested in showing, please contact me via e-mail Tymoshuk@xprt.net
This e-mail is checked daily.

The next sale will be Aug. 8th, 10-5pm. The cost is $25.00 + 5% donation to the Save the Springdale fund.

This fee covers advertising, but it is your job to send off e-cards to your network of friends/family.

You must have your own canopy, and hanging system, tables etc...You must be set-up by 10am and you must stay till 5pm. You also must be present to show your work, unless you have made special arrangements with me ahead of time.

I will be printing up cards again, if you would like to be featured on the card send me pics asap. I would like to have them printed up in July.

The Key to this being a success is getting the word out. If you can help me do that, your assistance is greatly appreciated.

Also, if you are in some shows and would like the network to get the word out send your show cards and I will send it out to this network.


Attached are some show cards, please come visit me if you can. (I have emailed her to send me some images, as they weren't actually attached. Busy lady!)

Thank you,
Chris Tymoshuk

Any questions about this event or how to contact Chris, contact me here and I will forward all inquiries on, as appropriate.

WOO! HOO!! You are the first 5000!!

Thank-you! Thank-you! Thank-you first-time & returning blog visitors & supporters!! In a little over two years since it's inception, Timeless Rhythms Studio online journal has logged in it's first 5000 views!!

I have taught myself a lot setting up my first blog. This adventure has been my way of staying active in one of the most significant areas of my life, as I transition from what was to what will be!

Watching my world become more connected to the whole wide world is terrifyingly wonderful!! Very powerful and very empowering!

I am most grateful for everyone who continues to silently come by to keep tabs on my path, even when my fields of productivity appear to lie fallow for a time. Even in silent times, the under-surface is ever renewing, gathering up energy to begin again.


Sacred Under the Sky, after EC, Prisma Color

Quietly Transitioning

I am living quietly these days. Listening to the rhythm of transition that is marking my life now. Noticing how noisy the mind has become, noticing fatigue, surrendering.
I am struck by the quality of local women farmers' produce. I am listening to teachers who trust human beings deeply as a spiritual path...
Occasionally, I scribble a little here and there, but mostly I am listening, observing.
Someone recently asked me if I had plans for the week-end? I said that in this state of transition everything is simple pleasure. She just looked at me.

My Latest Housing Search is Over at Last!

Celebrate! Celebrate! Dance to the Music!!

I am incredibly happy about having found my own place to live yesterday!! This finally comes after two years of transition from small town living to try life in the nearest big city and on some significant fronts, failing badly in the effort!

Funny how sometimes you can leave home seeking fame and fortune in the wider world, only to return to find it was all here the whole time! I have learned a lot and I look forward to just exhaling for awhile. Then, gently putting into action what I am learning still. I know this process of re-defining my life isn't over. Just for now, it is in some revision of better planning as well as greater internal clarity, for as long as that takes!

Below are a couple of "before" pics of the inside of my new abode!





My OWN place in which to grow, to soak in what internally has been germinating as well as on hold, for a very long time. My own place from which to learn how to bring my inner purpose into clarity with greater effectiveness out in the world!! I'm 'cited with anticipation and wisdom!!

Professionalism Mirrored Back

Hi!!

I am so-o-o very pleased, proud, and very excited to write and share with you all my newest, professional affiliation with a collaborative project debuting during Women's History month in Washington DC, this month!

If you click on the link "gallery," on their website you can find one of my paintings at the bottom of that page. If you scroll through the menu bar to the side of the page, click on "WAWH Biographies" and again scroll to the bottom of the page to find my very simple bio statement.

I cannot begin to tell you what this affiliation means to me!! Yet, I will start by saying that it represents my first alliance after sixteen to twenty-one years of working in isolation on the healing of my FOO needed in me; developing the creative process in tandem every step of the way. (The time difference represents my parenting and painting paths.)
A healing process that leads to one’s own ability to express a new voice of autonomous value; a voice that no one can ever take away again; a voice, an inner identity to consciously choose to pass on. A creatively intelligent voice in solidity and clarity of personal courage; becoming the embodiment of work one empowers oneself to bring into this world in order to share for the benefit for everyone attracted specifically to what I do in art, somatic psychology and alternative nutrition, for their own benefit; raising my daughter as first beneficiary. At this brief moment of transition, I consider my daughter is this fleeting vitality merging into her own sense of self.

It is my wish to open this new door to Woman Artists/ Women Healing with you, as I begin this part of my journey and professional life, in order to share what my whole life has been about with greater clarity: to come to an inner place in this world where I belong as I am_ an artist, a woman, a daughter healing family inheritance that took hold in me in the womb; an inheritance of abuse and abandonment in their universality that have always deserved an appropriate liberation process within everyone who seeks it for their own unique healing processes.

I cannot begin to put into words right now, the feelings I am still skyin' over, when I read the first email response to my contact with the Women Artists/ Women Healing facilitators! I suddenly felt my professional self mirrored back to me in very powerful feelings that continue to buoy me; my gratitude for this experience of peer recognition is boundless.


Emily, Oil, 36"x 48"

Clear Voices of Women Artists/Women Healer-Allies, at Long Last

First, I must thank another blogger whose posts I am following here_ I am most grateful for your dedication to the arts and especially to women in the arts. Thank-you!




Welcome

February 4, 2009 by ironcuttermedia

Women Artists/Women Healing: Multicultural Artistic Narratives of Trauma and Survival is a five-part narrative series featuring literary readings, performances, exhibitions and facilitated discussions.

Gathering women artists, healers, veterans, and survivors from across cultures and disciplines, the series showcases the resiliency and expression of the human spirit, seen through the lens of female artists and speakers.

Join us every Tuesday evening in March from 6-9pm at CentroNía in Washington, D.C. as we explore the connective tissue of humanistic themes that entwines us all.

Interact with the artists, performers and panelists to learn how lives are transformed through artistic, creative and personal expressions. Listen to voices of survival, be it the ravages of war and strife, or crime, poverty, and oppression and find out how faith, healing and empathy are entry points for promoting justice and healing from within and beyond one’s own personal experience.

In celebration of Women’s History Month, each program begins at 6pm with a light reception, art exhibit and performance, followed by a facilitated panel discussion at 6:45pm. Audience interaction is encouraged.

Women Artists/Women Healing is produced by Elizabeth Bruce, author of ‘And Silence Left the Place,’ stage actor, playwright of ‘Sheila’s Iron,’ and educator. The series is associate produced by Alivia Tagliaferri, author and documentary film-maker of Ironcutter Media, and Timothea Howard, political activist, visual artist and program manager of CentroNía’s Community Schools Program.

Women Artists/Women Healing is funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, and hosted by CentroNía (1420 Columbia Road, NW, Washington, DC 20009). The series is also funded in part by the Readings & Workshops Program of Poets & Writers, Inc.

How Did I Enjoy Them_ Should You Ask? And You Have!

I went to the opening performances of this year's PDX Jazz Fest 2009, on an auspicious Friday, February 13th, as a winner of our local NPR station_ KLCC's ticket give-away. I was thrilled to go and hear the music, and also because this year was a particularly top-flight jazz event!! I really wanted to go because PDX was host to one of only three WORLD-WIDE performances of the seventieth anniversary of Blue Note Records, who wisely chose to showcase their jazz artists in traveling/performing diplomacy of American music and culture. It feels good to support independent artists and those organizations whose roots are independent in their support of the variety of arts movement in our world.
For those who don't know, Blue Note Record's historical inception came out of a personal passion for jazz starting in Germany! (Check out the link.)
Gonzalo Rubalcaba's musical family background comes directly out of the height of Cuban Mambo/Jazz that really caught fire in this country during the 1940's! Some of Cuba's musical legends were regular guests in the family home where Gonzalo Rubalcaba grew up.
After hearing this concert, it is clear to my ears that he is a musician with jazz flowing in his veins; a solid performer in his own right and truly a noble opener for what was to come later that night!
I like to call the jazz performed by the humble Mr. Rubalcaba and his band, 'impressionistic abstraction.' For me, it is a musical encounter that allows the mind to soar on layers of color while the body rests in a rocking rhythmic understructure. Gonzalo Rubalcaba's piano virtuosity is playful in a thinking manner. Touching down on solid earth as it leaps freely back off again into an acrobatic, grooving, gliding air dance of color impressions! WOW! I will be looking for more of his solo and en groupe musical tracks and performances after this heady night of my very first exposure to jazz with Cuban roots, Rubalcaba-style!
After the performance, I chose to take home their CD titled, Avatar. I refer to Gonzalo Rubalcaba as humble because meeting him in the autograph line after his show, I found his demeanor very much the diplomat. I am still enjoying savoring the night's performance all the more, each time I turn my copy of Avatar on to listen again and again!

More commentary on the performance of Terence Blanchard and his band and the accompaniment of the Portland Jazz Symphony to come, as well as, my separate musical encounter with world renowned performer Evelyn Glennie, (not a BlueNote musician)... stay tuned!